Renovations- week 2

"Old houses mended,Cost little less than new before they're ended."~Colley Cibber

I know it's been awhile since I've posted to the blog! It's summer and we've been busy!! But here we go...more pictures of the progess at the house.

Old siding is off...new roof is on.

Kitchen addition is framed... (I'm standing about where the table will be)

Kitchen Continued...

Looking through kitchen doorway onto the new master bedroom door.

Master Bedroom- looking into what will be the master bath.

Looking out master bedroom "door" into kitchen and "hall".

Standing in kitchen "hall" looking at master closet.

Movin' on up...

Standing in the upstairs hall looking at what will be a new half bath and the new bedroom addition. The smaller wooden door will open into what used to be attic and is now a small storage closet.

View into the new upstairs additon. This picture doesn't quite show how large that room is... but there'll be plenty of room for whatever I might want to put in there...

View from bedroom addition to upstairs hall.

View from stairs to downstairs hall.

Stay tuned... coming next: back deck and new wiring!

House Update - Week 1

Here's a few pics on the progress at the house!! The crawl space was poured and the new foundation laid, and they framed the new addition, complete with the new roofline! Not bad for the first week!

BEFORE

AFTER

Strawberry Planting

Last Sunday we were finally able to plant the strawberries. It was still a little more moist than what would have been ideal- but beggars can't be choosers!! The entire Held family helped plant the strawberries- even though I woke them up from what I'm sure was a wonderful Sunday afternoon nap!
Nick was the tractor driver, Nancy and I rode the planter, and Nathan and Melvin (bless their hearts) followed behind the planter to make sure the crowns weren't too shallow, weren't too deep, but were just right. Melvin also walked along the planter and helped keep the wheat from clogging the planter.
I'm not exactly sure what happened...but I ended up with closer to 1/2 acre than the 1/4 acre we were shooting for. The row width ended up being a little wider than 4 feet due to the tractor tire width...and we have a few spots with missing plants...but we still had quite a few leftover. I think they may have given me a few extra plants...and it is possible that my math may have been off... but better too many than not enough! Just means I'll be spending a little more time dancing down the rows with my hoe.
Despite the less than ideal planting conditions- I'm happy to report that Mother Nature provided a just in time rain shower to get my plants up and growing and I do believe they are going to grow just fine!!
Strawberry shortcake, anyone?

Girls Day

Today was a much overdue girls day!!

My dear friend Nikki came to visit-we had signed up to run the Relay for Life 5K race in Boonville. It was a great time!

After we got our workout in for the day, we came home and cleaned up. Since we were meeting up with our other friend, Carolyn, later in the afternoon, we had some time to relax. We were just about in the REM cycle of our nap when Pepper alerted us rather abruptly that Nick was home for lunch.

We met Carolyn in Jasper where we stopped at the Doodlbug to stock up on scrapbooking supplies...We've already decided the next Girls Day is going to be a scrapbooking slumber party at Nikki's house! After the Doodlebug, we headed to the Schnitzelbank for a yummy German lunch where we stuffed our faces.

When I got home...Nick and Melvin had worked themselves into the ground getting the strawberry patch ready to plant by rototilling almost 1/2 acre with a walk behind tiller. While I did not want to see that they had worked themselves into the ground....it was the cherry on top of my perfect day to see that we'll be all set for planting berries tomorrow!